[Hooper] Re: Hooper Research

[Deanna Baumgardner]

Charlene:   Ericson Books, Nacogdoches at www.ericsonbooks.com has many 
books regarding Shelby County that might be of interest to you; some 
written by Kathryn Hooper Davis.
Deanna R. (Hooper) Baumgardner
4606 Willis Avenue #105
Sherman Oaks, CA. 91403
818 789-1378


On Jan 6, 2004, at 1:26 PM, CWBrazell at aol.com wrote:

>     About Shelby County, Texas, deeds.  I was aware that there were 
> deeds in
> the court house which date prior to the fire of 1882.  I found some of 
> my
> Williams family deeds which were valuable to me.
>     What had happened was that John B. Williams and his wife, Nancy 
> (and that
> may have been Colson or Lawson) died before 1860.  In 1870 and 1871 the
> children divided the family land and made deeds to each other.  One 
> reason why they
> waited that long may have been because the youngest son was not 21 
> until 1870
>     When you record your land you know you take the original deed home 
> with
> you; and put it under the mattress.  That's why there are all those
> misspellings on public land records.  The owner didn't spell it three 
> different ways on
> the same deed, the courthouse clerk copied it that way.  Anyway, the 
> ones who
> had hung on to their land took the deeds back in and rerecorded them 
> after the
> fire.  I suspect that some had already sold their land because not all 
> the
> children rerecorded a deed.
>     On the 1870 deeds one of the daughters, Elizabeth a gt-gt-aunt of 
> mine
> was married to Edgel Permenter's gt-gt-grandfather, John May.  Under 
> the legal
> system of the time, he signed with her.  Each had previously lost 
> spouses to
> death and each was the third spouse of the other.
>     Shelby County has a Historical Association second to none.  I do 
> wish
> that they would take as a project the abstracting of their early 
> deeds--printing
> who bought and who sold and who signed as witnesses, land description 
> etc.
> I'm eager to buy that book.
> Charlene Walker Brazell
>
>
Deanna R. (Hooper) Baumgardner
4606 Willis Avenue #105
Sherman Oaks, CA. 91403
818 789-1378